My view: Recent Springwater Township Council actions By Bill French – Local Advocate and Council Watch A number of things have transpired at Township Council that suggest that some are jockeying for position for the Fall 2014 Municipal Elections. It was interesting to see the council pass “lame...
By Cheryl Anderson Prince Edward County Field Naturalists This report only deals with the first part of the day today. The PECFN counter appeals and cross appeals and the intervener South Shore Conservancy was completed in the late morning and the afternoon was devoted to the APPEC appeal. Your PECF...
The following is the text of a presentation being made to local councils by AWARE Simcoe board members Kate Harries and Anne Learn Sharpe. The next presentation will be to Collingwood Council on February 10 at 5 pm. Musical adaptation of slide show Navigable Waters Protection Act In 2012, the federal...
Info from Huronia Woodland Owners Association The Huronia Woodland Owners Association, the oldest Woodland Owners Association in Ontario, is having its Annual General Meeting at Simcoe Hall, Lakehead University in Orillia On Saturday February 1st, 2014. Where: LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ORILLIA CAMPUS, 500 ...
From Jack Gibbons
North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Today the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) board of directors decided to delay making a decision on our request that it repeal the Maple Lake Estates (MLE) Loophole, until after the October 2014 municipal elections. This needless d...
By Maija Hoggett Alliston Herald NEW TECUMSETH – New Tecumseth council is poised to approve fee increases for marriage licenses, burning permits, and more. The mostly minor adjustments have been suggested by staff to bring the town in-line with neighbouring, or similarly sized, municipalities. ...
AWARE Simcoe news release AWARE Simcoe is calling on Ontario to plan for finite, sustainable communities. The underlying assumption of the current planning regime is one of perpetual growth, with no community ever deemed to be complete, no level of population ever enough. “In our view this assumption...
From Transition Barrie On the surface, Vaxjo Sweden and Barrie Ontario are actually somewhat similar. Vaxjo, situated inland in southern Sweden at the 57th parallel, is actually slightly further north than Fort McMurray, Alberta. Barrie would seem rather tropical being located at a latitude of 44 deg...
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